Webinar overview:
Carbon removal projects are generating headlines, but how does the fledgling sector work in practice and how can it support corporate climate targets? This interactive webinar will provide an overview of the nascent market and explore how growing numbers of businesses are investing in an emerging wave of carbon removal projects. The session will also discuss the risks and opportunities associated with the sector and how businesses can navigate them.
Topics to be covered include:
- What are carbon removal projects and why are they so important?
- What projects and technologies are now available?
- What are the pros and cons associated with different carbon removal projects?
- How is the carbon credit market evolving to support the sector?
- How can carbon removals support corporate net zero targets and strategies?
Panellists
James Murray
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessGreen
James Murray is Editor-in-Chief of BusinessGreen, having launched the site in October 2007. He is responsible for BusinessGreen's leading news, opinion and analysis, and also contributes to the brand's expanding events' programme. James is one of the UK's leading commentators on the low carbon economy. He writes occasionally for The Guardian newspaper and has also reported for BBC Radio on a number of green technology stories. James reports daily on a wide range of green business issues, with a particular focus on low carbon policy, economics and technology. In March 2011, James was voted number eight in the Press Gazette's list of the top 50 environmental journalists in the UK. Prior to launching BusinessGreen, James spent five years as a technology journalist working on a variety of IT titles.
Zander Dale
Managing Consultant, SE Advisory Services
Zander Dale is a Managing Consultant at SE Advisory Services, where he leads the Offsetting Advisory service line. He works with global organisations to build credible, standards‑aligned strategies for carbon removals, from land‑sector interventions and regenerative agriculture to biochar, enhanced rock weathering and wider technology‑based removals. His work spans feasibility studies, multi‑country pilots, soil carbon modelling, and the development of project methodologies that meet the GHG Protocol’s Land Sector Guidance, SBTi (including FLAG), SBTN and TNFD.
Zander helps businesses navigate the practical realities of this fast‑moving market, how to assess emerging project types, understand evolving standards, evaluate risks, and integrate removals into corporate net‑zero pathways. This includes advising on commercial models, governance, permanence, and how removals complement, rather than replace, core decarbonisation efforts.
His recent work spans Europe, Africa and Asia, supporting organisations investing in the new wave of carbon removal projects highlighted in this webinar, helping them move from technical potential to investable, scalable programmes.
Rodica Avornic
Policy Director, Carbon Gap
Rodica Avornic is Policy Director at Carbon Gap, an independent non-profit organisation working to make Europe a leader in responsibly scaling up carbon dioxide removal (CDR). She leads the organisation’s work on governance and standards, as well as on policies to support the development and scaling of CDR supply, including industrial policy and public funding for CDR research and innovation.
Ronan Carr
Lead Analytical Officer, BeZero Carbon
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